Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides, including Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, were reluctant to give that kind of authority to Rockefeller men. Rumsfeld's prime candidate for Cannon's job was Harvard Law Professor Phillip Areeda, who late last week announced his resignation as counsel to the President. The delay was awkward for Rockefeller. Two weeks ago, he met Ford for an hour behind the closed doors of the Oval Office-and Ford overruled his advisers. He saved for the dinner the announcement that the Vice President's choices had been accepted...
...every frame by feck less Director Sidney J. Furie (Lady Sings the Blues), who lets her work without restraint. Such freedom is always the result either of the film maker's rapture or loathing, but in this case it is impossible to tell which. Berlin goes through awkward, putatively comic body move ments, as if trying to cry on her own shoulder...
...route. For full-time competitor as well as amateur, there is a price for the solitude they find along rural trails: hard work. Few sports are so demanding. On long, thin skis, cross-country skiers are like marathon runners covering miles of rugged terrain while burdened by pounds of awkward gear...
Scarcely a year ago, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger proclaimed the beginning of a "new dialogue" between the U.S. and Latin America. By last week, however, the dialogue had stuttered to an awkward halt...
...prep school years, and some from the years at Yale, where the teachers had twinkles in their eyes. A chapter begins with "The reason I waited to marry..."and sidles into a glib and superficial commentary on sexual attitudes in the thirties, a commentary that is all the more awkward for being offered as revelation ("I perceive now that my unmarried teachers at Yale were probably less chaste than the rest of us.") And there are hints at what must be buried wells of real and sincere pain, but inevitably appear as trite, heart-on-sleeve banalities ("How many friends...